The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-16
YELLOW JACK SHUT OUT.
THE CITY'S GATES CLOSED
AGAINST TAMPA AND PALATKA.

An Inspector TO be Stationed at Way
cross To-day No Restriction OF Jack
sonville and Gainesville Travel-How
Savannah is Protected.
To-day an inspector viii be on hand at
waycross to examine all suspicious persons
end carry into effect the'quarantine against
Tampa and Palatka. The health author
titles do not consider this an absolute neces-
sity, but still they do not propose to give
yellow fever the slightest opportunity to
get in here. The quarantine at Jackson
Vile and Gainesville is rigid. 1t is impossi-
BILE for any one from Tampa TO enter the
one. or from Gainesville to get into the
other, without the knowledge and
consent of the health officers at
those points Those who are admitted
are held fifteen days before they are permit
ted to leave. The whole section is thor
oughly protected, the county lines being
guarded by Gordon of armed men. The
only possible way in which persons from the
infected districts could get in here would be
by going around those places and getting
on the trains at points north of Jacksonville
and Gainesville, but now such persons, if
there should be any, will be stopped at
Waycross.
INSPECTED AT wAYCRoss.
General Manager Haines, of the Savan-
nah Florida and Western Railway, has
been requested by the Sanitary Board TO
instruct his conductors to render all the
assistance in their power to the Waycross
inspector by pointing out all persons who
board the train at points north Of Jack
sonville and Gainesville who are not known
to be residents of the place at which they
got on, thus while Jacksonville and Gaines
vile form an impregnable barrier against
the advance of yellow fever along the
avenues by which it travels, the Waycross
inspector will effectually prevent the posi-
bility of its approach by any other route.
The mails are thoroughly fumigated be-
fore they get into either Jacksonville or
Gainesville They are subjected to the fumes
of burning sulphur for twelve hours before
they are sent on, and the authorities all
agree that twelve hours are more than suffi-
Gent to kill the germs, If there should be
any in them. Thus in every possible way
Savannah is protected against the encroach-
ment of the disease. With strict quaran-
tine regulations at both Jacksonville and
Gainesville, 40 miles away, the health au-
tborities say that there is no possibility of
its reaching here. The season is too far adj
vanced, and the weather is too cool to per-
NIT of It's spreading outside of the narrow
limits to which II is confined.
LOCKED CARS TO GO THROUGH
The following resolution was adopted by
the Jacksonville Board of Health on Friday:
Resolved, That all passengers from South
Florida be allowed to come to the railroad juno
ton, west of Jacksonville only in locked cars,
and pass on through to Georgia or elsewhere,
provided the President of this Board receives
assurance of a strict quarantine satisfactory to
him, and that said cars be allowed to pass on
north ~ If il does not a OnaraUfiu4
against this city.
In consequence of this telegram was
sent by DR. Neal Mitchell, President of the
jacksonville Board of Health to the SAM
tary Board of Savannah asking that the
President of the State Board of Health of
Georgia be requested to inform the authori-
ties of jacksonville whether refugees from
Tampa and. citizens of Palatka would be
permitted to remain in any part of Georgia,
and if so, under what conditions, if any!
NO STATE BOARD OF HEALTH.
Or. Mitchell was informed that there is
no State Board of Health in Georgia, but
that each locality provided its own regula-
tons, and that persons having passed the
quarantine at Jacksonville and having been
released by the health authorities of that
city, and residents of Jacksonville who had
not been in the infected district
will, of course, be permitted to
Cofne 10 odNaIlDdu WITHOUT feSJflcLlOn,
there being no more danger in receiving
them than in receiving persons from the
North. DR.. Mitchell's inquiry also referred
10 the locked cars spoken of in the resolu-
ton, and he was wired that if the health
authorities of Jacksonville considered it safe
for these cars to pass Jacksonville, there
would be no objection to their passing Sa-
vannah, provided they come no nearer the
city than the Charleston and Savannah
no health ,NfS
Jacksonville and Gainesville are in daily
Geographic communication, and are all
kept thoroughly informed on exact condi-
ton of affairs at each place.